IDS authors argue there is an urgent need to rethink democracy by centring people, power, and inequality, and put forward eight building blocks to strengthen democracy and resist democratic decline.

Former president Goodluck Jonathan queries why democracy fails to deliver growth in Africa, citing economic success in non-democratic nations and urging reforms.

an important driver of democratic decline is political exclusion and inequality and when citizens are excluded from a role in policy and decision-making spaces ...

India can adopt a new path to development, one that no developing country has taken before, wherein its firms come up with world-beating ideas and products and deliver them globally. No large ...

Botswana Minister of Minerals and Energy Bogolo Kenewendo spoke at the World Leaders Forum in Low Library on Monday, delivering an address on the nation’s democratic history and natural resource ...

Political science scholars examined worldwide democratic backsliding and emphasized the need to strengthen pro-democracy coalitions during a Wednesday event titled “Global Challenges & Responses to ...

China’s President Xi Jinping told his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden that the issues of Taiwan, democracy, human rights and rights to development are “red lines” for China and not to be challenged, the ...

Modalities for the implementation of local government autonomy are being sorted out by the federal government, Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, said yesterday in Lagos.

In a political landscape where young people are often mobilized for elections but sidelined in decision-making, a new initiative is seeking to fundamentally redefine their role. The Netherlands ...

Kathmandu, Aug. 3 -- Ajay Das served as programme director for the Asia Foundation's Civil Society and Media programme for two and a half years. The project was funded by the USAID, but in January, ...